Hearthpwn

Excelleeeeeent, a perfect addition to the ultimate RNG troll deck.

Quote from raspberrydude >>

I got a feeling this card is alot stronger than it looks. Also his initial design is obviously not 9 mana.

Something interesting to think about though... You are about to lose the game with legions of Jade Golems on the other side. You drop this guy(in a control deck I assume). Opponent has no more removals. Will he still engage his risky lethal attack and risk running his Jade Golems into each other? Or will he wait another turn to draw a removal?

You might also want to consider single removals might not work. It HAS to be an AOE.

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Quote from Janusi >>

I don't understand why this card doesn't do something with elixirs. This is an Ogre mechanic.

 It's nothing like Ogre. Ogre mechanic only affects minions, and they still hit enemy targets. This is more like Misdirection that affects everything including spells. Ogre mechanic also gives you 50% chance to hit what you want, in this case chances are lowered by the amount of targets (and that includes friendly targets too).

The effect is actually extremely powerful, if not for the crazy overpriced cost. Imagine dropping this when you have empty board and enemy has shitloads of crazy high jade golems (let's say 5 golems). If he doesn't have an answer like flame cannon or some sort of aoe, he risks his golems killing each other or even hitting his own face.

So IMO effect isnt terribad, the problem is it's cost. My guess is this started as a much cheaper card, but during internal testing they realised this effect is really crazy and can be much stronger than random lols and had to bump it's cost a lot so that it's not Yogg 2.0.

Such irony that the mayor of the most criminal city ever is bound to have his effect as "legal target"...

Which also makes him not worth the craft i'm afraid, he's too easy to counter, unless your strategy is aggressive enough to lure removals before he kicks in. But then it means you do not want to extend for so long in the game anyway...

So this card will rip through zoo and swarm decks, obliterate freeze mages, and cause untold chaos for pretty much anyone if buffed above 4 health (so that Flamestrike, Auchenai Soulpriest/Circle of Healing, etc. won't clear him).

I see potential here.

EDIT: Oh - just read the tweet. Hm. Not so amazing, unless you're running a bunch of tokens or something, since "target must be legal". Still, bad for spellcasters, since removals typically work on their own, as well.

Quote from RavenSunHP >>

Such irony that the mayor of the most criminal city ever is bound to have his effect as "legal target"...

Which also makes him not worth the craft i'm afraid, he's too easy to counter, unless your strategy is aggressive enough to lure removals before he kicks in. But then it means you do not want to extend for so long in the game anyway...

If he is not, than this is shit card.

Presumably this was costed at 9 to make absolutely certain it never ends up anywhere in the esports scene.  Assuming that it affects all spell targets and attacks and that every potential target has equal probability of selection, it is a little bit like an unpredictable board wipe.  If you play it against a full board, you're quite likely to kill off a lot of it before your opponent has got rid of the mayor.  

Not worth playing a 9 mana 5/4 for though, but I guess that if it was more realistically costed (e.g. 6 mana) then it might have started popping up everywhere and getting similar press to Yogg.

It depends on how exactly this works. If you play flamestrike, is there a chance that flamestrike will hit opponents board instead? If you play arcane missiles, is there a possibility that it hits opponent instead? These are the questions you need to make in order to make this card playable

Best board control ever

Quote from Clife >>

It depends on how exactly this works. If you play flamestrike, is there a chance that flamestrike will hit opponents board instead? If you play arcane missiles, is there a possibility that it hits opponent instead? These are the questions you need to make in order to make this card playable

I want to see this in play if this applies only to targetting mechanic but not to minions it will be total a shit legendary but if it applies to minions this minion is even better than deathwing. 

This minion has a wise stat line why because if it would be more than 7-7 this card would cause pre yogg nerf kind of salt 

PLS let this be in my packs. It's crazy fun I love it

Oddly enough, this is not the last legendary i would like to get in packs from this expansion.

Imagine Pyroblasting yourself...

Ultimate OTK counter

Quote from Hearthsam >>

It was confirmed on twitter that he abides by all the rules of spells, meaning if something has "an enemy minion" in its card text, like sap and execute, it's still only ever going to hit the mayor as he's likely the only thing you play in a single turn due to his massive mana cost. Also, friendly minions can't hit friendly minions, A BIG DEAL. If the mayor overthrew these rules he'd perhaps be decision worthy but I don't think so now :(

How disappointing, but I sopose whith the constant whine of the comunity and some 'pros', it's undersandable they wouldn't print such a fun powerfull and RNG based card.

Quote from Hearthsam >>

It was confirmed on twitter that he abides by all the rules of spells, meaning if something has "an enemy minion" in its card text, like sap and execute, it's still only ever going to hit the mayor as he's likely the only thing you play in a single turn due to his massive mana cost. Also, friendly minions can't hit friendly minions, A BIG DEAL. If the mayor overthrew these rules he'd perhaps be decision worthy but I don't think so now :(

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